Chapter 12 - Nightlight” (1/2)

Chapter 12: “Nightlight”

After running around for most of the night and morning, it was not surprising Shi Jin nodded off. He thought he would be able to sleep until the plane landed, but while he was halfway through a dream, Xiao Si suddenly screamed and woke him up.

“What’s wrong?” He asked drowsily, opening his eyes with some difficulty.

Xiao Si was panicking: <JinJin, your progress bar suddenly rose by 100 points, and now it’s 750.>

That made Shi Jin pay attention. He sat up and exclaimed, “What?!”

He was so agitated that he shouted this out loud. Lian Jun, sitting next to him, put down the magazine and turned his head, “Did you have a nightmare?”

“Er… Yes. ” Shi Jin snapped out of it and gave Lian Jun an awkward smile. He leaned back in his seat, suppressing his emotions, and asked in his head, “Why did it suddenly rise? Is Lian Jun in danger again and it’s affecting me?”

<No, Darling’s progress bar is still at 500,> replied Xiao Si.

Shi Jin frowned, his eyes carefully sweeping around, trying to find the reason for the sudden increase in the progress bar. As he kept watching, something occurred to him—after he ran away from home, he fled to China because he had speculated that the distance from his brothers was also one of the lethal factors, and later this guess was proved correct. B City, as the capital of China, was obviously one of the usual places of residence of the five men though.

So much for keeping away from them.

He looked at Gua Two, who was sitting across the aisle, asking gloomily: “Little Number Two, are we going to land in B City soon?”

Gua Two bared his teeth and said, “Not for another fifteen minutes. You were sleeping like a dead pig for the entire flight, Little JinJin.”

Shi Jin rolled his eyes and showed him a middle finger, then looked away, saying to Xiao Si with a sigh, “My progress bar has risen by 100 points as soon as we got near—I should conservatively estimate that at least three of my brothers will be in B City.”

Xia Si shivered. <Then what are we going to do?>

“What can we do?” Shi Jin slumped in his seat. He turned his head slightly to the side and looked at Lian Jun’s beautiful profile, softened by the dim light from an airplane window, then said calmly: “Of course, we are going to stick to our golden thigh and silently pray that B City will be big enough for us not to run into those vicious guys.”

Xiao Si: <Waah, waah…>

Despite his defeatist words, after the plane landed and everyone settled down in a high-end club called “Nightlight”, Shi Jin began actively gathering information about his brothers through various channels, trying to find out which of them were currently staying in B City.

It was possible to get news about the three brothers who were keeping a high profile. One of them was Shi Weichong, a newly successful businessman who often appeared in the financial news. For him, a simple online search was enough.

The next one was the second brother Fei Yujing, a lawyer who specializes in economics, a real heavyweight in his field—he was willing to undertake only truly major cases, and would be out working almost three hundred days out of a year. Shi Jin searched for the cases he’s been handling recently and was able to more or less guess his whereabouts.

The last was Rong Zhouzong, the third oldest brother. He was called “The Demon King of the Showbiz World” and his popularity was so high he was constantly in the headlines. It was easy to track his movements because his fans were keeping a detailed itinerary of his activities at least one month ahead.

Shi Jin kept searching like crazy, even pretending to be a devoted fan of Rong Zhouzhong to sneak into one of the private chat rooms. Finally, in the early hours of the morning, he managed to confirm his brothers’ whereabouts—Shi Weichong was in B City and was going to stay here for a long time because of a planned merger of his old company and the Ruixing Corporation; Feng Yujing’s absence was confirmed, since he was on the other side of the world dealing with a lawsuit brought against a certain financial mogul and definitely didn’t have time to run around; as for Rong Zhouzhong, he may or may not be here, because he recently announced he will need to travel back and forth between B and S Cities.

Having excluded Fei Yujing, and, to be safe, having assumed the two low-key brothers were also in B City, Shi Jin determined that at present it was possible to encounter four of his brothers, and he needed to take care and avoid them.